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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. To think of it this way “ obscures Alibaba’s breakthrough business model and the window it provides on how the economic scene is evolving.” billion dollars. Before 9:30 a.m.,

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.